CHAPTER 2 DEMONS ATTACK
Disclaimer: I don't own naruto
"talking"
'thinking'
"demon/radio talking"
'demon thinking/ inner sakura'
It had been seven years since the incident during the festival, the young Sakura had just graduated the ninja academy and had been placed in a team with her crush Sasuke and another boy from a non-clan family like her named Kenma, and she couldn't be happier with her luck of being put on Sasuke's team. They had completed the bell test barely realizing the meaning of it till only a few moments before the test was over. Now they had been doing D-rank missions for a few months now and she couldn't be any more fed up with them.
Sakura was hiding under a bush sneaking up on her target "in position and target is in sight." She said over her radio
"Roger I'm in position as well." Sasukes voice came over the radio
"Same here." Kenma replied
"Alright everyone move." Kakashi's ordered over the radio
Once they had been given the order Sakura shot out giving chase to the shadowy target as it raced through the forest. It tried to turn but was cut off by Sasuke forcing it into a field and right into the hands of the waiting Kenma, who fell backward from the force of the target hitting him.
"Got ya you little rascal." Kenma said as he held a cat with a bow on its ear out at arm's length while it just gave him a death glare then began to scratch his face.
"Bow on the left ear confirmed this is the target." Sasuke said into the radio
"Roger that, meet at the Hokage tower, with the target." Kakashi ordered over the radio
"Roger." Sasuke replied back "hey stop messing around we need to head to the tower to return the target."
"Gezz just call it what it is a cat." Kenma replied
"If I keep getting missions that are below me like this I will at least act as if they are decent missions." Sasuke replied
"Right Sasuke-kun, so let's go return this target and go get some launch afterward." Sakura replied happily. But just got no reply from the raven haired boy as he turned and began to walk towards the village.
It took them ten minutes to reach the tower, while trying to deal with a cat who didn't want to be reunited with its master.
As they approached the door the Hokage the were about to knock when they heard a voice from inside say "come
As they opened the door to come in they found the Hokage sitting at the center of a long table with Iruka sensei and two others they didn't really care to know. On the side of the table was a whale of a woman that was the land fire daimyo's wife, and their sensei at the side of the room waiting on them for a change.
"Lord Hokage we have brought the target as requested." Sasuke said in a tone saying he didn't like the job. Kenma who had been holding the cat held him as the lady took him and hugged it and stroked with obvious displeasure from the cat, and they all thought 'no wonder the damn thing ran away.'
"Thank you ma'am." The Hokage said as the lady paid them for the job and left
"Alright what next we have paint the fence at a farm, picking up the groiceries for old lady Minki." The Hokage told them as they all just gave dissatisfied looks even Kakashi had one hiding under his mask when the old lady next to the Hokage leaned over and whispered something into his ear. "damn council." He said under his breath, that the younger ninja caught with anticipation. "seems the council demands that Sasuke be tested with a higher ranking mission. This got all four of their interests peeked even though the silver haired Cyclops didn't show it.
"What kind of mission is it." Sasuke said with pride in his voice at hearing the council wanted to see how good the Uchiha name was.
"I will have to look and find an appropriate mission for you first higher ranking mission." The hokage said as he shuffled through some papers till he found a mission suitable for the young genin. "ah here we go an escort mission to the land of waves."
'Finally a decent mission' thought Sasuke
'Alright I get to go on a long trip outside the village with my Sasuke-kun' Sakura thought to herself 'maybe we can even get more intimate with him.' her pervish inner voice said as she shook her head to get those thought out of her head.
"Come in Tazuna." The Hokage said as the doors opened and revealed an old man with gray hair and beard, holding on to a bottle of sake and was somewhat drunk.
"So where is the group of bodyguards?" Tazuna asked as he looked around and only say a few kids
"This is team seven they will be escorting you home." The Hokage said gesturing toward the young ninja.
"These whelps are my bodyguards? Are they even old enough to be ninja?" Tazuna asked "cause the emo one with the ducks ass hair cut looks like he is about to cut himself." This gave Sasuke a pissed off tone to his normal indifferent face "Pinky looks like she just wants to strip down and start riding ducks ass over there." this just caused Sakura to get a tic mark over her eye ready to kill him "and the brunette over there looks like he is trying not to shit himself."
"We this is the team that will be guarding you unless you don't want our protection I suggest you start walking now." The Hokage replied holding a smile that hide the fact he wanted to through this fool out the window no matter how much he agreed with his observation.
"Alright I am Tazuna and I need someone to protect me from bandits, robbers and the like as I go home to the land of waves." The Hokage said with some venom for disrespecting his ninjas
"Alright, alright if this is what I can afford I'll take it." Tazuna said just then the silver haired Cyclops snapped his little book shut and walked over to Tazuna
"I am Kakashi Hatake I am in charge of this genin team." Kakashi said as he walked up to his new employer
"And a perverted Cyclops, what next a blonde on a never ending sugar high?" Tazuna replied
"Eight o'clock front gate be there on time or you are walking home alone." Kakashi said in tone that could freeze water, and just got head nod from Tazuna that he understood. At that Kakashi and the rest of the team headed out of the room to prepare for the upcoming mission.
Nine o'clock the next day team seven minus Kakashi showed up at the main gate to the old man sitting at the bench.
"Where the hell have you guys been? I have been waiting for over an hour." Tazuna replied obviously pissed off
"Why he said nine." Sasuke replied flatly
"I heard nine." Kenma said
"Me too." Sakura said
Just then Kakashi strolled up reading his little book and stopped in front of the and closed his book and looked at them "ah good to see you made it here on time." he said with an eye smile
"Bullshit you said eight I have been here for over an hour!" tazuna yelled
"Why would you come an hour early?" Kakashi asked innocently
"Cause you said be here at eight." Tazuna said pissed off
"I could of sworn I said nine. What did you guys hear?" Kakashi asked the genin
"Nine." They all replied
"Your hearing must be going in your old age might want to get that checked out." Kakashi said as he opened his book again and began to walk out the gates "well you guys coming?"
'Ha he may be a pervert but he gets points in my book for that.' Inner Sakura yells in Sakura's head as she smiles to herself, and begins to follow him.
After a few hours of walking with nothing happening. Just then out of nowhere a set of chains wrapped around Kakashi and ripped him to shreds.
"SENSIE!" Sakura yelled as the two ninja wearing cloaks and half face masks, similar to Kakashi's, and hidden mist forehead protectors appeared behind Kenma
"Your next." They said sickeningly making the young genin freeze in his tracks as the chains looped up into that air about to rip the young ninja to ribbons like his sensei. Just then a shuriken and kunai struck the center of the chain pinning it to a tree. That was when Sasuke landed on the arm of each one of the assailants and kicked the both of them in the face, detaching them from the chain they were holding.
"Take out the target." One yelled as he rushed to attack Sasuke.
"Right" the other yelled as he rushed toward Tazuna.
'Shit I need to do something.' Sakura said to herself 'come on, come on move.' She said to herself till her body moved between the oncoming ninja and Tazuna with a kunai ready. She just stood there waiting for what seemed like an eternity for the enemy to get to her. but just as he was about to strike something smashed into him and another cloaked hooded figure was kneeling in his place as it looked off to where the mist ninja had been launched from. She stared wide eyed at this new person as he shot off toward the enemy ninja.
The hidden mist ninja picked himself up off the ground under the tree he had been launched into only to see a fist coming into his face smashing him into the tree and imbedding him into it, then slapped a paper with a seal onto his head. Without hesitation the cloaked figure shot toward the one remaining hidden mist ninja that had been fighting Sasuke. As he came up behind the ninja he looped his arm around the ninja's neck and threw him into the ground backwards and pulled out a slip of paper with the same seal on it as the other one and slapped it onto the ninjas head.
The three genin just stared at the new comer with awe, except Sasuke who just thought he was a show off.
"Ah excuse me." Sakura was the first to speak as the hooded figure made a slight turn of his head but keeping his face hidden by the shadow of the hood. "who are you?"
"Hey you gonna come out or not." Came what sounded like a young boy's voice from the stranger. Just then Kakashi walked out from the bushes reading his book.
"Yo." He said looking up at the three genin, old man and new comer.
"Kakashi sensei?" all three of the genin responded confused
"But I saw you get torn to shreds" Kenma said as he looked over to where he saw Kakashi torn apart and saw a smashed up log instead of limbs.
"Yeah I did a replacement jutsu cause I wanted to see something." Kakashi said
"And what is it you wanted to see? That was worth putting our lives in danger." Kenma asked franticly
"One I wanted to see how you'd do in an actual fight." Kakashi said
"Epic fail." The stranger said with a chuckle
"Who are you?" Sasuke demanded confused
"If things got too bad I would have stepped in." Kakahsi said "and second is I detected three people and only two attacked I was waitng to see what the third was going to do like if he wanted to attack when an opening presented itself." Kakashi explained
"Oh that makes sense." Sakura said
"And third I wanted to see if this was an attack on us being leaf ninja or if they were targeting the old man." Kakashi said "and they went right for the old man as soon as they had the opportunity." He finished looking right at old man with a glare as Tazuna
"Hey maybe they thought since I had a ninja escort I was the one with the money." Tazuna tried to play it off
"No it wasn't about simple robbery they said 'target' they were here specificly for you" Kakashi said coldly "and I want to know why."
"Well you see. I, um, I" Tazuna stuttered
"I don't really care I am only here for them." The stranger said giving Tazuna a breather
"What?" Sasuke said
"Yeah these two are the demon brothers of the hidden mist B rank missing nin with a decent bounty on their heads more if they are alive triple if brought in together." The stranger said
"Right you're a bounty hunter." Kakashi said with distaste in his mouth
"Oh I get the impression you don't approve of my profession." The stranger replied snarkaly
"You have no honor men for higher, only loyalty is to those who have the deepest pockets." Sasuke said with venom
"And tell me how that is different then you ninja huh." The stranger said. "cause I know how brutal and merciless ninjas can be." He said coldly
"Well…" Sasuke began but was cut off by the stranger
"You take jobs some legit as escorting this old fart home but once you get up in the ranks especially at ANBU level you do the same jobs I take on." The stranger said "isn't that right Kakashi Hatake better known as the copy ninja?"
"He is right we are muscle for hire as he says, but we look hard at our jobs before we take them on, while a mercenary takes any job as long as they get paid. We also have a code to look out for one another instead of just ourselves." Kakashi shot back
"Just like you looked into this one with a fine toothed comb?" the stranger shot back
"Ah, ok you got us on this one." Kakashi said giving Tazuna a glare
"And let's not forget where these two came from." The stranger said
"The hidden mist?" Sakura said
"Good job pinky you know their village markings you want a cookie?" the stranger said with venom "or better known as the 'bloody mist' where your pampered leaf asses couldn't possably fathom the horrors." The way the boy had talked to her sent a shiver down her spine "just remember the only difference between us is you get a ceremony and a pine box when you fail a mission, while I get a ditch if I'm lucky."
"Fine just take your bounties and leave, we will leave you be if you do the same." Kakashi said
"Fine by me it'll be too much of a pain in the ass to try and collect your bounty now any way. don't want to go up against a THE copy ninja this early in the morning." the stranger shrugged as he walked over to one of the brothers and tied him up and began to drag him over to the second as he did the same then tied them together.
"Right, now where were we." Kakashi said as he turned toward Tazuna "Tazuna why where they after you." The strangers perked up after hearing the name
"I have no idea?" Tazuna said an obvious lie
"I might have a guess to why." The stranger said
"And how would you know?" Sasuke spat
"Well these two have been working alongside a man known as Zabuza Momochi." The stranger replied
"And how does this help us." Sasuke spat
"Well ya little brat rumor has it Zabuza has been working for a gangster named Gato." The stranger explained, at the name Tazuna tensed up. "ah I see you recognize it, you should since he controls the land of waves, and has bounty out on a certain bridge builder Ta-zu-na."
"So this gangster wants you dead, even has a bounty on your head you should of told us this to begin with." Kakashi sighs "then this would have been treated as a B or even A rank mission"
"I couldn't my home is very poor and can't afford such a mission. We were barely able to get the money for this mission." Tazuna pleaded
"Well since he lied to you about the job mind if I take him in a bounty is a bounty." The stranger said with a shrug
"No we said we would escort him home and that is what we will do." Kakashi said making the old man start to tear up.
"Thank you thank you." Tazuna cried
"But we are going to have a long talk about this." Kakashi said coldly at the old man
"Alright I can respect seeing a mission through. I hold the same philosophy always complete the mission." The stranger said as he picked up the demon brothers and threw them on to his back with a strength that someone his size shouldn't have
"Wait." Sakura called out.
"What?" the stranger growled
"You saved my life back there I just wanted to say thank you, and ask you your name." she replied with her head down.
"Whatever just seemed easier to take him down while he was distracted by you I didn't do it for you, and the name is Fox." He replied as he jumped up into the trees and started jumping from branch to branch.
"Huh." Kakashi said
"What is it sensei?" Sakura asked
"I have heard of this fox before he is an A rank bounty hunter slash mercenary could go toe to toe with low level jounin from what I hear and if rumor is correct he is no older then you all." Kakahsi said
"What no way he is the same age as us." Sasuke said "he may be our height but no way he is that strong and the same age as me."
"I am just saying that is what the rumor is." Kakashi said as he started walking again as if the confrontation they just had never happened. As the rest of the squad and old man followed him.
'I don't know why but he seemed familiar.' Sakura thought to herself 'but why'
Meanwhile the cloaked stranger was carrying the bodies of the demon brothers off to a place he could collect the bounty.
"So kit how was it running into a leaf ninja again been awhile huh." Kurama asked smugly
"Shut it fox I don't want to talk about it" naruto said coldly the fox inside his mind
"Oh sorry, didn't think you would get all emotional over it. But maybe I should of expected that since it was her that was with them." The fox smirked behind his cage.
"I told you to drop it." Naruto said back
"Oh come on she was the whole reason you got run out of the village you gotta have some thoughts on it." The fox grinned
"I'm not talking about it." Naruto replied getting agitated
"Oh come on that's no fun." The fox replied
But naruto gave him no answer
"What the silent treatment really, that's mature." The fox said "but fine one last thing, must of tore you apart seeing the man who was supposed to protect you from all of that shit huh?"
"I said shut the fuck up fox." Naruto said as tears began to form in his eyes the first since he was run out of the village.
'Why did it have to be her, of all people it was the one I despise the most.' Naruto thought to himself as he ran through the trees.
END CHAPTER 2